Israel’s military accused the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Tuesday of trying to hack the mobile phones of Israeli soldiers through a malicious World Cup score-tracking app and two bogus dating apps. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and has fought several wars with Israel, declined comment. The three Android apps, which have since been…
Online conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has hired lawyers representing a founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer to defend him against defamation claims brought up in Connecticut by families of seven Sandy Hook victims, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 children…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has arrived in Israel to receive an award from the Jewish organization snubbed earlier this year by actor Natalie Portman. The inaugural Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to the U.S. Supreme Court justice in a private event at the Yitzhak Rabin Center, Tel Aviv, on Wednesday evening. The Genesis…
A Swiss museum will retain ownership of a Paul Cezanne painting in a Nazi-era collection after agreeing to exhibit the work regularly at a museum in the French artist’s hometown of Aix-en-Provence, the artist’s heirs said on Tuesday. La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a landscape from 1897, is among works amassed by German art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill that requires the military enlistment of a target number of haredi Orthodox yeshiva students passed its initial reading in the Knesset, despite threats by haredi lawmakers to bring down the government if it becomes law. Some 63 lawmakers voted in favor of the legislation and 39 against after a more…
(JTA) — A Reform movement youth leader in Britain who participated in a public “Kaddish for Gaza,” was removed as a leader of the youth group’s summer tour in Israel. Nina Morris-Evans was dropped Monday as a tour leader for the summer teen tour of the Reform movement’s youth wing, RSY-Netzer. The Movement for Reform…
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz is afraid that America is growing increasingly intolerant toward opposing views. His proof, according to his recent op-ed in The Hill: Friends are ostracizing him in Martha’s Vineyard. Dershowitz, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School and frequent cable news talking head, maintains that he has defended President Trump’s civil liberties just…
A French gangster who escaped prison in a chopper could be disguising himself as an Orthodox Jew to evade authorities, the Evening Standard reported. Redoine Faïd, who speaks Hebrew, wrote in his 2010 biography about how dressing like a very religious Jew was the perfect way to hide from the police. “Faïd won’t be able…
An Iranian general has accused Israel of causing climate change in the Islamic Republic by stealing the water out of clouds passing over the Mediterranean, Newsweek reported Monday. During an agricultural conference in Tehran, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, claimed Iranian scientific centers have proven that Israel and an…
Michael Cohen repeatedly distanced himself from President Donald Trump in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Monday. He also hinted that he would soon air Trump’s dirty laundry. The former Trump lawyer, who once claimed he would take a bullet for the president, refused to declare allegiance. “My wife, my daughter and my son have…
Former Texas congressman Ron Paul tweeted an anti-Semitic and racist cartoon before being swiftly and quietly deleted. The cartoon features four stereotypically drawn men — Jewish, Asian, Hispanic and black — shouting “Cultural Marxism!” as they punch Uncle Sam. Paul’s comment above it reads: “Are you stunned by what has become of American culture? Well,…
